George-Pierre Seurat
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Vincent van Gogh letters dictionary >> (December, 2, 1859, Paris - March, 29, 1891, Paris) - a famous French painter and drawer, founder of Neo-impressionism and main practitioner of Pointillism technique.
He studied art in Ecole des Beuax-Arts under the tutorship of sculptor Justin Lequiene. After his first painting "Bathers at Asnieres" had been rejected by galleries he and his fellow painters established The Society of Independent Artists (1884). Under the influence of contemporary scientific discoveries in the field of visual perception of light and colour (Hermann von Helmholtz, Michel Chevreul, Ogden Rood, Charles Blanc), Seurat
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Vincent van Gogh letters dictionary >> decided to create a new language of art that he called Divisionism, or Chromoluminarism. He meant by choosing appropriate forms and directions of lines and colouring to render certain human emotions.
This scientific approach (“scientific Impressionism”, in words of Camille Pissarro
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Vincent van Gogh letters dictionary >>) to painting initiated Neo-impressionist movement and Seurat
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Vincent van Gogh letters dictionary >>'s painting technique has become known as Pointillism ("point" - dot): small juxtaposed dots of different colours allow viewer to blend them with the help of their eyes instead of having mixed them on the painting itself as usual. The term was first used in 1880's by art critics who aimed to mock Seurat
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Vincent van Gogh letters dictionary >> and his followers, but as it always happens this word stayed in the art history. First - and the most famous - painting by Seurat
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Vincent van Gogh letters dictionary >> created with the help of such a technique took him two years to complete and was finished in 1886. It is called "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte".
Among his other works: "The Models" (1888), "Gray weather, Grand Jatte" (1888), "The Circus" (1891, unfinished).